The Nine Steps to Super Grocery Store Savings

What you are about to do to achieve your real-life grocery savings will be unlike any plan you have ever taken on. I am going to give you nine critical pieces – I call them “steps” to altering your thinking, inside and out, in a way that will make, attain, and keep lasting grocery store savings. 

Yes, you may have to spend more time on some steps than on others, but only by fully mastering all eleven steps will you be able to do this right, this time, beginning now.

Step #1: The Correct Attitude

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To overcome your grocery store savings challenges, first you have to know exactly where you are starting. It is to understand yourself. What is it about yourself and your grocery store savings problems that you’ve come to believe? This understanding, which relates to your savings, and indeed to your entire life, is vitally important. If you believe it and if it’s real to you, then it’s for your reality that you live every day.

If you believe with conviction that you will fail and never, ever, be able to manage your kitchen budget, then failure is what understanding yourself dictates. It shows up as a heavy load of disgust, shame, guilt, hurt, self-hatred, and other self-critical voices that do nothing but drag you down.

Step # 2 Mastery Over the Kitchen Inventory

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One of the most important grocery savings confidence builders is knowing what is in the pantry, freezer, spice rack and other places you keep cooking ingredients before we make out our shopping list. You have a couple of questions you begin to ask yourself before beginning our plan.

The inventory gives you direction and defines discipline. Knowing your plan and keeping it prominent is your mind gives you direction to your shopping plan. I define discipline and commitment as putting your shopping plan first. You do what your plan “says” you should do rather than what you feel like doing. Committed shoppers are driven by their purpose and not by how they happen to feel on a given day.